Infrastructural Times : Temporality and the Making of Global Urban Worlds /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Addie, Jean-Paul D. (Editor), Glass, Michael R. (Editor), Nelles, Jen, 1979- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Bristol : Bristol University Press, 2024.
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Table of Contents:
  • Front Cover
  • Infrastructural Times: Temporality and the Making of Global Urban Worlds
  • Copyright information
  • Table of Contents
  • List of Figures and Tables
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Acknowledgements
  • 1 Time for a Global Infrastructure Turn
  • Introduction: take your time
  • Unpacking infrastructure's temporalities
  • Time, infrastructure, and the urban experience
  • Infrastructures as temporal
  • Temporal imaginaries
  • Times of maintenance and repair
  • Moving infrastructure time forward: an overview of the book
  • Infrastructural pasts, presents, and futures
  • Development times and the making of urban worlds
  • Times of disruption/ disrupting times
  • Your time starts now
  • References
  • 2 Rhythmic Infrastructure
  • Three-dimensional dialectics of space-time
  • Infrastructural rhythms as a temporal analytic
  • Repetition: generating difference through repeating
  • Cycle: temporal alignment and contradiction
  • Period: grappling with continuity and discontinuity
  • The possibility of rhythmic infrastructure time
  • Notes
  • References
  • PART I Infrastructural Pasts, Presents, and Futures
  • 3 Usable Infrastructure Pasts: Mobilizing History for Urban Technology Futures
  • Introduction
  • Comprehending usable pasts
  • Identifying usable infrastructure pasts
  • Embedded pasts
  • Adapted pasts
  • Parallel pasts
  • Futured pasts
  • Discarded pasts
  • Mobilizing usable infrastructure pasts
  • Re-presenting pasts
  • Re-membering pasts
  • Re-iterating pasts
  • Conclusion
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes
  • References
  • 4 Shifting Regimes of Historicity and the Control of Urban Futures through Infrastructures: Continuities, Ambivalences, and Tensions in the Anthropocene
  • Introduction
  • The temporalities of modern infrastructures
  • The infrastructural dimension of modernity
  • The lifetimes and life cycles of infrastructures in recent history
  • Infrastructures and the experience of time in everyday life
  • Infrastructures and the modern regime of historicity
  • The interrelated registers of temporality in the modern infrastructural compact
  • Infrastructures, modern futurism, and contemporary presentism
  • The rise of a presentist experience of time and the digital revolution
  • Infrastructures between futurism and presentism
  • Infrastructure-based futuring and the rising concern about the Anthropocene
  • Pluralizing times
  • Reopening infrastructural futures
  • How (and why) to research infrastructure-based futuring
  • Study initiatives that challenge dominant forms of infrastructure development
  • Study how futures are actively shaped in the present, and how they were shaped in the past
  • Explore elsewheres and elsewhens beyond the networked city
  • Notes
  • References
  • 5 Extensions as Infrastructure: The Temporalities between Subjugation and Liberation in Jayapura, West Papua
  • Times of forced autonomy